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Virgil the Partisan
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A Study in the re-integration of Classics
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Artikel-Nr:
9781910589397
Veröffentl:
2012
Erscheinungsdatum:
31.12.2012
Seiten:
310
Autor:
Anton Powell
eBook Typ:
PDF
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Since its first appearance in 2008, this book has changed the landscape of Virgilian studies. Analysing closely the logic and the literary genres of Virgil's three poems, it politely confronts the modern orthodoxy that Virgil signalled distaste for the methods of his ruler, Octavian-Augustus. It refreshes the study of Virgil's poetry by comparing it with the detail (normally neglected by scholars) of Rome's civil wars after Julius Caesar's death, when Octavian's survival looked highly unlikely. And it argues that Virgil wrote as a passionate - and brave - partisan of Octavian, who - like a good lawyer - confronted his patron's undeniable failings in order to defend.
Since its first appearance in 2008, this book has changed the landscape of Virgilian studies. Analysing closely the logic and the literary genres of Virgil's three poems, it politely confronts the modern orthodoxy that Virgil signalled distaste for the methods of his ruler, Octavian-Augustus. It refreshes the study of Virgil's poetry by comparing it with the detail (normally neglected by scholars) of Rome's civil wars after Julius Caesar's death, when Octavian's survival looked highly unlikely. And it argues that Virgil wrote as a passionate - and brave - partisan of Octavian, who - like a good lawyer - confronted his patron's undeniable failings in order to defend.
Acknowledgements and Prefatory Note Chronology PART I Studying Virgil and The established partisan: The Aeneid 1. Studying Virgil: several types of circularity - and an escape 2. The theft of Pietas 3. Recovering Sicily 4. The peopling of the underworld: Aeneid 6.608-27 5. Aeneas, sex and misery PART II Partisan in the making: The Eclogues and Georgics 6. The Eclogues 7. The Georgics: the fate of the Muses 8. Conclusion Bibliography Index